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Now, consider if a foreign government did this with a custom malware that isn't picked up by ordinary antrivirus. Hell, they could even buy the best smartcard
by kramerger 4y ago
Now, consider if a foreign government did this with a custom malware that isn't picked up by ordinary antrivirus.
Hell, they could even buy the best smartcard vendor and spend a couple of millions to increase quality and reduce price.
After a year or so they are the reader of choice for the entire army and everyone are happy, unknowing that US Army now leaks about as much as the Russian Army...
- hulitu 4y ago"Now, consider if a foreign government did this with a custom malware that isn't picked up by ordinary antrivirus." An "ordinary antrivirus" like MS Defender or McAffee (that's what my work PC has) is not able to detect malware from internet. A state actor has no issues installing malware on an accessible computer with Windows
- candiodari 4y agoWould a criminal organisations, some of whom have now gotten into constructing armed submarines, and the R&D that goes with that, really have a problem achieving the same?
- pilsetnieks 4y agoNow, I'm not familiar with every brand of antivirus software but hasn't almost every one of them included some kind of network traffic filter and/or downloaded file checks for the past couple of decades or so?
- hulitu 4y agoThe network part seems to be disabled in the corporate environment. Downloaded files check: it has't worked for me since a very long time. Almost all virus infections that i saw in the last 15 years were through a downloaded file.
- nonameiguess 4y agoThis is exactly why the US DoD won't buy anything from foreign-owned vendors and only allows US persons residing in the US to work on defense contracts.